"This melon is so sweet."

Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the small bench provided by the young melon seller, biting the watermelon and eating, the melon was very sweet, white and red, juicy and tender.

At the same time, he was already listing the charges against Li Xiao in his heart.

The household registration system that he spent more than ten years building was completely canceled, and it was directly abolished, and even the military households were abolished, which was the first thing that Zhu Yuanzhang could not bear.

If even the military households are abolished, who will fight in the future if there is a war?

Second, because of the cancellation of household registration, everyone wants to do whatever they want, and in Beiping, these people can live wherever they want, and I heard that many people have made money, so they left the village, went to the county seat and even went to Beiping City.

In the long run, isn't there no one in the countryside?

What's more, Li Xiao actually forced children to go to school at the age of six and be obligated for five years, so wouldn't they be all over the world in the future?

The people would rather let it be done than know it.

It is not good for the people to know too much about things.

Will it be more difficult to obey discipline and rebel everywhere in the future?

Third, I heard this young man say that the entire land in Beiping was taken away by the prefect.

This is simply a bit ridiculous, this Beiping Mansion has 45 million acres of arable land, isn't this Li Xiao the biggest landlord in the world? ?

I don't know how Li Xiao did it.

Do the local people and farmers agree?

Was the army mobilized to suppress it in the first place?

There are too many mysteries, and Zhu Yuanzhang seems to be preoccupied.

Although when he first came, the smooth asphalt road brought him surprises, but what happened later brought him fright.

Zhu Yuanzhang finished eating a piece of melon and threw the melon skin aside.

Erhu immediately handed over another piece of melon.

Eating and eating, before he knew it, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was thinking about things, ate a whole watermelon.

A full hiccup followed.

Suddenly, he felt something was wrong.

It is completely different from the feeling of eating melon in the past, except that it is sweeter

"No watermelon seeds!!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes fell on the ground, and he suddenly discovered his previous feeling, it turned out that he had eaten for so long without spitting out a single watermelon seed.

Strange, so weird!!

How can watermelons be seedless, and if they are childless, how will they keep melons in the coming year?

You must know that Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a farmer and still knows agriculture very well.

Because of the small and big, he quickly thought that if the land was taken away and no one left the seeds of various crops, would the crops be cut off?

"Erhu, did you find it, this watermelon has no seeds"

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the ground.

Erhu looked towards the ground, and then said in surprise: "Master Huang, it's true, this watermelon really doesn't seem to have melon seeds."

As he spoke, Erhu pointed and said, "Shopkeeper, please open another melon." ”

The young man was delighted, "All right." The guest officer will give you a melon. ”

The watermelon knife goes down, and a large watermelon is divided into two halves.

The bright red flesh was revealed, and there was not a single seed visible on it.

Erhu didn't pay attention to Zhu Yuanzhang's body just now because he was worried about it, and he was really stunned this time.

The young man split the watermelon into several more pieces, but there were still no seeds.

Erhu held the watermelon and handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Master Huang, look."

It's so rare, it's the first time I've seen this kind of rarity!

What the hell is going on??

Zhu Yuanzhang muttered: "No wonder I ate so happily just now, it's all because I don't have to spit out watermelon seeds." ”

He frowned slightly, looked at the young man selling melons again, and said, "Young man, why don't you have seeds for this melon?" ”

The young man smiled: "This is a seedless unicorn melon, it's delicious." ”

"Delicious is delicious."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "But how is this melon grown, and how can it be kept?" ”

The young man who bought the melon smiled and said: "I don't know very well, the melon is not planted by me, but I know that there is a store called Daming Seed Company in Beiping City, which sells all kinds of seeds, tomatoes, potatoes, peanuts, corn, peppers. When the seeds can be bought, maybe they will be bought there. ”

"Daming Seed Company."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the watermelon in front of him in surprise, in addition to this seedless watermelon, there are potatoes, peanuts, corn, and peppers.

What are these things, why haven't we heard of them?

However, it is good to have a company that specializes in selling seeds, in the past, farmers kept their own seeds, so now they don't need to keep seeds, can they sell themselves?

Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it for a long time, but he felt that there were too many things he encountered today, his brain was about to explode, and he needed to rest well and go back to pick it up.

Hey, after all, I'm getting older, and my brain hurts when I think about some questions.

"Perhaps, what Li Xiao did was right? Although this young man has no land or land, he has been very optimistic and smiling since just now."

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the young man and asked with a smile: "Young man, are you happy?" ”

"What?"

The young man smiled and shook his head: "I don't have the surname Fu."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes narrowed, this young man was really unhappy. Li Xiao really deserves to die

Immediately afterwards, the young man finished his words and said, "My surname is Wang." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang: "."

Forget it, this kind of thing is better to observe it yourself, and you can know the eyebrows.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the young man in front of him, and after talking for so long, he felt that this young man was very talkative, and he was kind to people, which was relatively eye-catching.

I sat and watched the young man sell melons for a while, and the melons on the tricycle were almost sold.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked, "Young man, it's time to close the stall, right?" ”

The young man smiled: "Yes, there are still three melons left, and the stall will be closed today." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang got up and said, "Young man, let's buy all the remaining melons." ”

As he spoke, the second tiger on the side asked, "How much silver is the remaining melon, plus the two melons that were opened just now?" ”

The young man weighed it, rubbed his hands and said, "A total of half taels of silver." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly startled and said, "Half a tael of silver? Boy, are you right? ”

Five watermelons are about fifty catties, two copper plates for one catty, and one hundred copper plates, that is, one penny of silver.

This person actually took half a tael, he seems to be loyal and honest, he can't be a profiteer, right?

The young man said: "Never, guest officer, my seedless watermelon is refreshing and expensive, this brand says that the price is clearly marked, ten copper plates a catty, fifty catties is just half a tael of silver." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the small wooden board on the ground, and it was indeed written on it ten copper plates a catty.

"Can you write?" Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised.

"Hehe, learned, learned in the army." The young man laughed.

"Army. I also teach how to write."

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became interested, and planned to communicate more with this young man to understand some of Li Xiao's cancellation of the military household, and what the situation of the military household is now.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the sky and said with a smile: "Now that it is getting late, I can't see clearly at night, and it is not very convenient to go to the city to stay. Let's give money. ”

The sun had set, and it was indeed dark.

The young man laughed and said, "You're asking the right question." ”

As he spoke, he turned the small wooden board over on one side, and the other side read: B&B two dollars of silver for one night, including breakfast.

Zhu Yuanzhang: "???? ”

Feelings: This young man has a lot of business, and what about the inn business?

The young man smiled: "I originally planned to stay a little longer to attract customers, but since the guests have come to the door by themselves, then we will close the stall, come with me." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head helplessly and got into the carriage.

Let Erhu keep up with that tricycle.

On the way, Zhu Yuanzhang poked his head out and asked, "Young man, I don't know what you call it?" ”

Wang Jianlin pedaled the tricycle and said with a cheerful smile: "My surname is Wang, my name is Wang Jianlin, you can call me Xiao Wang." What do you call you, old man? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Huang Ba." ”

Wang Jianlin said: "Old man Huang, when I saw you today, I knew that you were a nobleman, and you had a noble spirit. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "You kid, you are very similar to my little brother, you are familiar, and you are good at shooting." ”

Wang Jianlin said: "Hey, we are all small traders, our mouths must be sweet, and our hands must be diligent, otherwise we will not make money." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated. What Wang Jianlin said makes sense.

But if the mouth is not sweet, the mouth is not diligent, and there is no land, how can he live?

So, Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "Young man, what if your business is dry?" ”

Wang Jianlin said: "If it's dry, it's a big deal to go to work and be a worker." ”

"Workers."

Zhu Yuanzhang wrote down this term in his heart, and when the time came, he would understand what a worker was.

After thinking about it, he asked, "You would rather be a trader than a worker, and it seems that this worker is not a good job." ”

Wang Jianlin said with a smile: "Actually, it's also very good to be a worker, everyone in our village is working in a brick factory, stable, there is money every month, and there are also holiday gifts such as brown sugar and tea during the New Year's holidays." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said unbelievingly: "It sounds so good, then why don't you go to be a worker?" ”

Wang Jianlin said: "I want to do some small business to accumulate experience as a businessman, now that Beiping does not limit household registration, I want to be a businessman and be a rich man." But I've never done business before, so I want to sell melons to gain experience, and when I save enough money, I want to go to the real estate business, and now I'm going to the city, and I will definitely make a lot of money by buying a piece of land to build a house and selling it."

The words fell.

Zhu Yuanzhang squinted his eyes, feeling a little bad.

The disadvantages of canceling household registration are too great, and everyone wants to engage in business, so there is still a need for it

Li Xiao, Li Xiao, this Beiping was really messed up by you.

The carriage moved forward slowly, the scenery on both sides was excellent, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but look at the scenery outside the window and feel the afterglow of this summer.

"What is different about us soldiers, just because we are all wearing simple military uniforms. What is different about us soldiers, since I left my hometown, it is difficult to see my father and mother.

It's the same when it comes to saying it's different, it's all the years of youth, and it's all hot-blooded."

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about something in the carriage, outside the carriage, Wang Jianlin, who was pedaling the tricycle, hummed a tune.

Probably because he not only sold all the watermelons on the tricycle today, but also brought back a guest, he seemed very happy.

"We are soldiers"

Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little strange in his heart, opened the curtain of the carriage again, and asked, "Young man, what song is this?" ”

"This song is called our soldiers, it is a song that the big guys must sing when they are training in the army, and they also compete with each other, but they are very energetic."

Wang Jianlin explained while pedaling the tricycle.

Between the regiments, Zhu Yuanzhang made another note to Li Xiao in his heart, not only did he cancel the military households, but he also started singing in the army.

At this time, Wang Jianlin outside sighed: "As soon as I sang this song, we remembered the days when we got along with our brothers in the army a few years ago and sweated, and we missed it!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up, didn't this young man just say that he still wanted to be a businessman, and now he seems to miss the time when he was a soldier?

Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "Listen to you, you still like to be a soldier?" But why not be in the army now? ”

Wang Jian said: "Hey, I like to be a soldier, but my wife is old, no one takes care of me, so I have to come back to take care of my wife, if not, I want to stay in the army for the rest of my life."

The voice fell.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked stunned.

He sensed something was wrong!

Yes, something is very wrong!

This soldier seems to have volunteered to be a soldier, but because of his mother, he began to become a businessman.

And unlike his own rules, the son of a forced military household must also be a military household.

One is mandatory, the other is voluntary!

If everyone wants to be a soldier, that's great!

But can it really be done?

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "Young man, listen to what you mean, if you want, you can always be a soldier?" ”

Wang Jianlin said with a smile: "It's not, I have become a small flag, and it is possible to rise one more and become a hundred households, but it's a pity, my wife has no one to take care of, so I can only come back, since I am back, I must also do a career."

Zhu Yuanzhang almost understood.

also understands what Li Xiao wants to do.

He wanted everyone to be able to do what they wanted to do

Those who are good at being a soldier go to be a soldier, and those who are good at trading go to do business, but they can't do it, so they become that "worker", although they don't know what a worker is.

"Li Xiao, Li Xiao, you are so naïve, if people's hearts are so easy to control, why should we waste so much effort to get a household registration system, you will have a big mess sooner or later"

Zhu Yuanzhang thought like this, and he had already arrived at Wang Jianlin's residence during the conversation.

After crossing the trail, we came to a village called Honghua Village.

Zhu Yuanzhang got down from the carriage, and the house that greeted him made his eyes light up.

Gray brick house, three-story building, which is rare in the countryside, he couldn't help but look up and down, and then turned his head to look elsewhere.

To his surprise, almost all of the houses in this village were like this, with yards, which looked clean and tidy, and were pleasing to the eye.

"Is this village so rich?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly surprised.

He traveled all the way from Nanjing to Beiping, and went to a number of peasant families to spend the night on the way.

Although the life of the people has been better in recent years, the houses are still the same, and most of the rural areas are earthen houses, except for large families and landlords, there are almost no brick houses.

And this village, every house is brick and tile?

This is also too exaggerated!!

Zhu Yuanzhang followed Wang Jianlin towards the courtyard, and he suddenly stopped in front of the courtyard gate, because a small golden sign on it attracted his attention.

The small golden plaque is engraved with four large characters: Home of Glory.

"What does that mean?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked, pointing to the plaque.

"This was issued by the army after I was discharged from the army."

Wang Jianlin said proudly: "This is the glory, it means that someone in our family has joined the army, and it is glorious to join the army!" ”

As he spoke, he made a military posture towards the open place, and said with a straight face: "Wearing a strong and stubborn edge is heroic, and Jin Ge Iron Horse has unlimited glory in joining the army!" ”

When Wang Jianlin said this, his eyes were full of great pride!

Zhu Yuanzhang, who didn't seem to be pretending, lit up his eyes.

Joining the army as an honor and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, no wonder Li Xiao will cancel the military household, if everyone is like this. Don't worry about no one being a soldier at all!

"Are all the people in your village willing to be soldiers?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

Wang Jianlin said with a smile: "It's not a question of whether you want to, it's a matter of having to go, all the labor service in Beiping has been canceled, only military service is left, men who have reached the age of sixteen must obey military service, of course, you can choose to quit or continue to stay after two years, most people are willing to stay if they come back after five years and can still be assigned a good job, I heard that they can be assigned to the Yamen, or go to other Yamen as officials. It's a pity, because of my mother, I came back early, and I don't have this blessing."

This.

Zhu Yuanzhang was slightly stunned, and canceled all the labor, so the yamen needs someone to do the work, who should do it? Do you want to spend money??

What kind of yamen is this watchman?

This full military service. Wouldn't everyone be trained to be like soldiers?

In the unlikely event of a civil uprising in the future, it will be difficult to suppress it!!

There are so many questions.

Zhu Yuanzhang is now in turmoil and feels a little headache

"Two guests, come with me, this is the guest room, if you need anything, just mention it."

Wang Jianlin led them to the third floor.

There are three rooms on the third floor, which are usually used to entertain passers-by and earn some extra money.

Erhu and Zhu Yuanzhang entered.

The room is neat and clean, with tables and benches, and two beds.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked to the bedside, he was quite satisfied with the environment, he mostly lived in people's homes along the way, this is the best one.

He sat by the window, touched the neat quilt, and said with a smile: "Young man, your quilt is folded well, like a tofu block, square and square." ”

Wang Jianlin smiled innocently: "It's all trained in the army." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, it seems that he has the opportunity to learn more about how this army is trained now, and how it is different from the original military system of the Ming Dynasty.

"Please bring me a floor."

Erhu instructed that in order to protect himself all the way, he slept in the same room with Zhu Yuanzhang, but he didn't dare to sleep in a bed, and he usually made a bunk on the floor.

Wang Jianlin wondered: "Isn't there two beds?" ”

Erhu said: "I like to be down-to-earth. ”

Wang Jianlin: "."

Soon, Wang Jianlin brought the floor shop and helped to pave it.

"That's right."

Wang Jianlin said with a smile: "If you don't dislike it, you can eat together later, let's farm, the cost of this meal is ten yuan per person, but you two bought so many melons from me today, so I will invite you to eat." ”

Twenty dollars for two people is not much, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "That's okay, let's eat some together, but this money, let's pay it, we don't like to owe favors." ”

Indeed, it is impossible for ordinary people to owe Zhu Yuanzhang's favors.

Li Xiao can make Zhu Yuanzhang owe a great favor.

Zhu Yuanzhang will also eat with the people along the way and see the lives of the people with his own eyes.

That's it.

Wang Jianlin turned around and went down to call his daughter-in-law to cook.

Zhu Yuanzhang rested in the room for a while, and his brain hurt.

"Erhu, have you written down everything along the way?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Erhu Dao.

Erhu nodded, "Your Majesty, it's all written down." ”

"Bring it to me."

Zhu Yuanzhang is now old, and his brain always doesn't remember things, so he took Erhu's notebook, began to read it, and revisited what happened today.

Everything he thought was outrageous.

For example, the matter of this military household, but what Wang Jianlin said later made him change his mind, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad

Half an hour later.

"Two guests, you can come down to eat."

Wang Jianlin shouted on the first floor.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Erhu got up and walked downstairs.

Coming to the lobby on the first floor, there are four tables.

Wang Jianlin is a family of three, his wife and his mother gathered around a table to eat.

The other three tables are supposed to be for the guests.

But apparently there were no two guests today, no one else.

The meals were the same on both tables.

Zhu Yuanzhang sat down slowly, looked at the food on the table, and then was stunned.

What's the situation, it's a twenty-dollar standard meal?

Two dishes and one soup.

One dish is scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

One dish is roast chicken with potatoes.

One dish is pork rib soup stewed with corn.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know what this red and yellow dish was.

But he could recognize that the bowl was full of meat.

Three dishes, all meaty.

Eggs, chicken, and ribs!!

Although the amount of chicken and pork ribs is quite a lot!

This is the standard of 20 cents???

He and Erhu combined, and it was only 20 yuan for food.

But these meat dishes, said to be a hundred words, also said in the past!

"Young man, you're not going to charge us more, are you?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the food in front of him and said in surprise.

"No, no, we are honest in business, and if we don't make more money, we will earn a hard fee." Wang Jianlin said with a smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang got up slowly and walked to the table of Wang Jianlin's family.

The three of them are a little strange, what is the situation with this old man?

"You eat this every day, too?"

Finding that the dishes on both tables were the same, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, the meals we eat for our own families are copied with the dishes of the guests."

Wang Jianlin pointed to the dishes and said, "We all fried them ourselves, is there any problem?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said incredulously: "This is too cheap, we are all a little unbelievable, outside Beiping, these dishes are not cheap, there are chicken, eggs, ribs, you have a lot of portions, let alone more than 100 yuan, right?" ”

"Haha, by the way, you're an outsider."

Wang Jianlin patiently explained: "This rib is more expensive, and the others are not expensive, since we have a large chicken farm in Beiping, the price of this egg and fat chicken is falling every day, this egg is two cents a piece, and this big fat chicken is only a hundred dollars a piece." ”

100 pennies a piece.

Zhu Yuanzhang calculated in his heart that one or two pieces of silver can buy ten big fat chickens!

Outside of Beiping, one tael of silver in other places can only buy four fat chickens at most, and this price has dropped so much???

But even if it's half cheaper, people can't eat chicken every day, right?

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Wang Jianlin, but he took it for granted.

Could it be.

Prices have dropped and incomes have risen, so that we can eat meat every day??

Hiss.

Zhu Yuanzhang showed an incredible look.

This Beiping. What the hell is going on!!

is numb, Zhu Yuanzhang is completely numb!

(End of chapter)